Re: [Wiki-research-l] Editors: research on transitions, learning over time, leaving

I like Jonathan's suggestion about logging edit conflicts and trying to figure out the correlation between edit conflicts and people leaving. Might also be worth looking into how reversions, deletion notifications, and giant warning templates also affect how likely people are to continue editing.

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Editors: research on transitions, learning over time, leaving

Some of these things are more difficult to test than others, and indeed some are easier to resolve than others. I'm pretty sure that we lose a lot of new editors due to edit conflicts. I suspect we can define the people who become active editors as being the people who learn how to resolve edit

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Editors: research on transitions, learning over time, leaving

I don't want to stop the conversation and just want to thank you all for the great input so far. I have not been able to read it all yet, but I hope I get to do it soon :-) Jan 2017-03-23 7:06 GMT+01:00 Kerry Raymond : > > A few years ago the WMF did a survey of former

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Editors: research on transitions, learning over time, leaving

> A few years ago the WMF did a survey of former editors, partly to > learn why they'd left. One of the most common responses was "I haven't left > yet". With the benefit of hindsight (a wonderful thing), that might be a bad way to have asked the question. A better way might have been to ask

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Editors: research on transitions, learning over time, leaving

I know that I was recruited to Wikipedia from then-competitor everything2, it would be interesting to find active users who joined during E2's precipitous decline, match their accounts and compare editing styles. cheers stuart On Tuesday, March 21, 2017, WereSpielChequers

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Editors: research on transitions, learning over time, leaving

Dear Jan, It's a fascinating topic and one that interests me as well. But you have to be careful with your assumptions, our data is almost always based on user accounts, but we'd like to think we are looking at people. Some of whom will have different accounts over time. Some of the involvement

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Editors: research on transitions, learning over time, leaving

Hi Jan, This paper may be useful in answering some of your questions: O. Arazy, H. Lifshitz-Assaf, O. Nov, J. Daxenberger, M. Balestra, and C. Cheshire. On the “how” and “why” of emergent role behaviors in Wikipedia

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Editors: research on transitions, learning over time, leaving

Hi Jan Together with other people in my group, we wrote a paper about how Wikidata editors change their behaviour as they become more experienced. It might be not precisely what you are looking for, as our study has a qualitative approach, while it seems that you are looking for something more

[Wiki-research-l] Editors: research on transitions, learning over time, leaving

Hello, I am looking for research on how editors transition through various levels of involvement in their time as editors. The questions I ask myself are: - How many people to come each month? - How many editors leave? …those are not too difficult to answer but… - How many people become more